Femme Fatale

Britney Spears is 30 this year – whisper it, but in pop years she’s almost dead. Our Brit knows that she’s used up a few of her pop lives already though, so for her seventh studio album she’s taking no chances, ushering in the production powerhouse of Max Martin and Dr Luke as well as an ocean of top writers. The result is a thumping party album flushed with a stack of bang-up pop tunes. If you don’t have your hands in the air for most of this, check your pulse, it might be you that’s dead…